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Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Medical Certificates (27 Jul 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 2827. To ask the Minister for Health the timeframe for a decision to be made on a primary medical certificate in respect of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39311/21]

Maritime Jurisdiction Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (14 Jul 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The Minister has put forward the subject of honesty and I am glad he has done so. Let us go through facts in detail. It is true that there were a number of agreements between the Irish Government and the British Government on the area around Rockall, culminating in the 2013 agreement. It was signed in 2013 and then laid before the Houses in 2014. The Minister says that the Government...

Maritime Jurisdiction Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (14 Jul 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Amendment No. 1 has been disallowed.

Maritime Jurisdiction Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (14 Jul 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Sinn Féin has very serious concerns in regard to this legislation. We acknowledge that the national marine planning framework has been established and that a number of legislative provisions follow it. As we speak, however, fishermen from Donegal are being prevented from fishing in their traditional grounds around Rockall. Eamon Gilmore, a predecessor of the Minister, Deputy Coveney,...

Maritime Jurisdiction Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (14 Jul 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I move amendment No. 2: In page 7, line 12, to delete "as soon as may be" and substitute the following: "within a time period allowing reasonable time for the order to be examined but not longer than 12 months". I am hopeful that the Minister will agree to these reasonable amendments. I have already referred to the unfortunate terms of the agreement of 2014. Amendment No. 2...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (14 Jul 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I am substituting for Deputy O'Rourke.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (14 Jul 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Thank you, a Cheann Comhairle. The Irish people have never recognised or accepted Britain's claim to Rockall. Tonight, without any real debate, the Irish Government, led by a Fianna Fáil Taoiseach, will sign away Irish sovereignty and, with it, our historic fishing rights at Rockall. This is utterly shameful. At a time when the entire industry is fighting for its very survival, the...

Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (14 Jul 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I find it extraordinary and very worrying that the Minister has put in these conditions. When it was confirmed with the campaigning families in Donegal that at long last, after years and years, they were going to be exempt from the property tax, they said it was a positive gesture, but there are more substantive issues. I note the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage, Deputy...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Land Issues (14 Jul 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 135. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to a number of instances across north County Donegal in which landowners have come into conflict with their neighbouring landowners arising from discrepancies between their original folio Land Registry maps and the maps that have emerged from the digitisation of the mapping system by the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (14 Jul 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 431. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE plans to support the use of the drug zolgensma that replaces the SMN1 gene for children living with spinal muscular atrophy type 1. [31562/21]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (13 Jul 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: They are not agreed. The contempt the Government has demonstrated towards the Opposition in recent weeks in rushing through legislation with guillotines applied across the board is totally unacceptable. The disrespect for sectoral committees and for the Opposition's duty and responsibility to scrutinise legislation is totally unacceptable. There is not enough time to debate the local...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Fishing Industry (13 Jul 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 194. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his views on the request from some inshore fishermen in Ireland that they would co-operate with the Marine Institute and other relevant authorities in conducting surveys on the abundance of wild salmon around the coast (details supplied). [37638/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (13 Jul 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 324. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if under the European Union (Construction Products) Regulations 2013 (SI No.225 of 2013) each of the building control authorities have been designated by the State as the principal market surveillance authorities for construction products that fall within the scope of the CPR within their administrative areas; and the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Animal Culls (13 Jul 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 357. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if there were any circumstances in which the culling of seals has been permitted by his Department in Irish waters and the EEZ over recent years. [37640/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (13 Jul 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 358. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will clarify the process for disposing of the rubble from homes that are demolished due to mica or pyrite in their concrete blocks; and if he will provide an assurance that no quarry that manufactured these blocks will be used for this purpose. [37644/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (13 Jul 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 627. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on the request from some inshore fishermen in Ireland that they would cooperate with the Marine Institute and other relevant authorities in conducting surveys on the abundance of spurdog or piked dogfish squalus acanthias around the coast (details supplied). [37637/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (13 Jul 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 628. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the efforts his Department and the relevant authorities are making to minimise either the illegal catch or bycatch of spurdog or piked dogfish squalus acanthias in Irish waters and the EEZ; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37639/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Food Safety (13 Jul 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 629. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if all EU states are subject to the same food safety regime when it comes to exporting brown crab to the Chinese market. [37641/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Strand 1 of the Good Friday Agreement: Discussion (13 Jul 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: There is a problem with the sound. Somebody needs to do something

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Strand 1 of the Good Friday Agreement: Discussion (13 Jul 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I thank the witnesses. It is good to see Mr. John McCallister again. I always thought he was a thoughtful and conciliatory parliamentarian. In terms of the submissions that are being made, the proposition is that the form of parliamentary assembly or democracy that is in place in the North is satisfactory. I think we all agree that it is not an ideal scenario. Ideally, in any democracy,...